the future

https://gnulinux.tube/w/4fXBzivRGte6RbUAnUT2nx

Local consumer protection agencies, regulators, and representatives can be just as powerful as national ones, and they often listen more closely to their constituents (especially in an election year). New feature: you can now reach out directly to your EU Member of Parliament or US State Senator and consumer protection agencies from the regulators list at https://keepandroidopen.org/#consumers. Speak out now, before it is too late!

Yes, I could use archive.today (and its clones), but its behavior is WAY to sketchy at this point. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Spotted around #CambridgeMA.

https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/

Here's that browser you said was gonna replace Firefox lol

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

re @claudeai@threads.net

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

First time making a proper #icon grid and a symbolic icon. Made with @inkscape@mastodon.art.

The Firefox version with a built-in AI killswitch is out.

EDIT: Muting this post before things get out of hand in the “directing hostile opinions at a stranger who has no power to change the things you dislike” department.

I love how history repeats itself

Shitposters uploading files to P2P filesharing platforms with the wrong filename?

Welcome back Limewire Bill Clinton ifreeclub.com

age of consent

#openbsd #unix_surrealism #art

❌ No snooping on our messages ❌

The European Parliament is currently deciding its position on the proposed second extension of the ‘temporary’ interim ePrivacy derogation, also known as 'Chat Control 1.0'.

✊🏾 @edri, 39 organisations and several individual experts are urging members of the Parliament to reject any extension of the derogation.

It is vital that MEPs act now to rule out mass snooping on our private messages.

Read the full letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-we-say-no-to-big-tech-mass-snooping-on-our-messages/

if you have't read this investigation on #Palantir by Swiss journalists and researchers at #Republik and #WAVResearch, you should do it!

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg@floss.social and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen@techhub.social.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

This program doesn't do anything? It is just a bunch of markdown files and a wrapper for LLMs with shell access?

And you're telling me that developing "skills" for this piece of shit is just writing a markdown file with instructions on how to do a thing?

People are mass buying overpriced Mac Mini computers just to play with A COLLECTION OF MARKDOWN FILES?

AI bubble has reached peak insanity.

RE: https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/aj7ffz404l

Just want to raise up the design of this “AI kill switch” in Firefox, and say how much I like it: it’s a top-level preference, and the design and content are both *very* clear in communicating the different levels at which you’re making decisions.

I would *love* to see more product companies roll out something like this for their en-LLM’d features.